Go very fast to be the first. The Nupes has just announced the presentation of its motion of censure a few minutes after the announcement by the Government of the use of 49.3 to approve the budget. The timing was very important: it allows the National Assembly to examine this text, before that of the National Rally, which will also undertake the same process.
“The motion of censure against the government is ready and signed,” rebel deputy Alexis Corbière had warned last Sunday, on the sidelines of the march against the high cost of living in Paris.
The overthrow of the government, very little credible
This device, cited by article 49 of the Constitution, is the main means for parliamentarians to make their disapproval heard in front of the executive. If 289 deputies vote in favor, that is, the absolute majority of the National Assembly, it immediately provokes the resignation of the Prime Minister and her government.
However, this option seems very unlikely since the Nupes only have 151 deputies. But the maneuver has a symbolic purpose: to be able to position itself as the first opposition force to Emmanuel Macron in the middle of a week of social discontent, between a day of mobilization and the blockade of refineries, in front of Marine Le Pen.
RN will present a motion but will not vote for the Nupes
The National Meeting should also present its own motion of censure very soon. RN deputies will not bring their voice to that of Nupes.
“We have one,” explained the president of the RN group to the National Assembly on Sunday on BFMTV.
On the Nupes side, things are less obvious. Fabien Roussel, the head of the communists, has already warned this Tuesday on BFMTV that he will not “vote” the text presented by Marine Le Pen’s group. But the story is a bit different on the benches of La France insoumise.
“We have to see, we have to discuss it. But I think it would be incomprehensible if we did not oppose this policy directed by Madame Borne by all means,” declared Clémence Guette, vice president of the LFI group in the National Assembly, at the end of September.
not the first
The motion of censure presented by the rebels also offers the advantage of insisting on the approval of the budget by 49.3, a constitutional tool that allows a bill to be approved without going to the ballot box. That of being able to denounce a passage in force as the rebel deputies have already done on many occasions in the chamber.
It is not the first time that the movement uses this device. In the absence of a vote of confidence after Elisabeth Borne’s general policy speech last July, Nupes had already tabled a motion of censure. Only 146 deputies had voted for him then.
Source: BFM TV
